A house divide against itself can not stand. Kenya is divided. Formalize the divisions now!

“Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand.” Matt 12:25

“..Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” Genesis 11:5

I will call for what everyone knows should happen but no one wants to say: Kenya is divided. Formalize the divisions into two countrylets.

There is no need to fight and kill people you do not like.

Kenya ( as is with all African Nations ) is a nation of nations, in fact, 43+ nations. The boundary of the modern Kenya, as we so well know, was set up by the British, not caring that forcing “peoples” of diverse nations into one nation would create disunity. In fact, the very fact of disunity was desirable in order to manage the “natives”.

At independence, one would have imagined that the first action item for our “visionary” leaders would have been to undo what the colonialist did, but they instead used the same British methods to control their new countries. Subsequent leaders of the nation ( Kenyatta, Moi ) used the same tactics to remain in power. Is anyone surprised that there is so much animosity in 2008? The past is past, but at least let as learn from it.

This is what i will advocate for. The 2007 election results, flawed or not, have shown ( at least initially) that there are two distinct Kenyas:

(i) A Central-leaning Kenya ( let us refer to it as Mt Kenya), that is composed around these provinces: Central, Eastern, Nairobi and parts of North Eastern.

(ii) The rest of Kenya ( let us refer to it as Other Kenya) that is composed of the rest of the provinces.

Now, if the peoples of Mt Kenya feels that their future will not be well served by a leader who hails from the Other Kenya, why force them into such a destiny? It is cruel. In the the same way, if the Other Kenya feels that their future is bleak if they are under the Mt. Kenya leader, why not let them go their separate way?

Let us solve this problem once for all. Let us divide the country into two.

There need not be fighting in order to achieve this. This is what is suggest.

1. First, the Military should step in and control the situation.
2. They should have a council with 8 members, all military, each member drawn from one of the 8 large Kenyan groups.
3. They should announce their intention to divide the country into two, into Mt. Kenya and Other Kenya.
4. After 0.5/1/ years, they would conduct a referendum where people decide if the divisions should occur.
5. People should be given a choice of which Kenya they would like to belong to and select their leaders at the same time.

Someone will say, “what if the new countries decide to separate into 43 entities”. Well, stupid people, let them. We all know there is power in unity, but let the fools learn that through experience. Eventually, if they do not starve themselves to death, they will start talking to each other about uniting into one bigger and better Kenya.

This is what should have been done in 1963. Let is do it now. Everything else is but a “band-aid” solution.

Possible contentions

Where are the boundaries to be?: Well, use the election results figures. If you do not like it, tough luck, tell it to the Marines.

What if the Military guys stick on?: Of course, power is sweet, and this is always a danger. You are out of luck. You should have behaved yourself better before. Live with it.

Why only two, we also want our own country?. Tough luck, what is divided is divided. Complain later your new leader.

I want to live in Mt. Kenya, but all my assets are in the Other Kenya: Three possibilities. Consider some type of compensation for you, just write it off as loss or Keep living in the Other Kenya and abide by the laws of that land.

Well, i do not like it. Tough luck. Tell it to the Marines.

Ok, it is now 2017 and it did not work. At least we gave it a trial. Why did you not come up with a better solution in 2008?

Comments:

If you feel like commenting, please suggest a solution, do not just write crap such “we have lived side by side these 40 years. It is the selfish politicians that divide us, blah blah “.

Note: I am free to keep adding to this post ( it is mine ) since i do not have the time right now to be more precise and concise.